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Former Tramway & Omnibus Company Building 669-675 Bourke Street and 20-38 Godfrey street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0455	This building was constructed in 1891 as the new office for the privately-owned Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company. The company formed in 1868 and was re-constructed as the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co in 1877 from the Melbourne Omnibus Co which was formed in 1869. It held a monopoly over the running of trams on the inner city's cable tram system from 1885-1916 and the office was constructed at one of the city termini. Designed by architects Twentyman and Askew, it is in a ... more	B0455	State
Former Wool Exchange Building Winfield Building 487-495 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3463	The former Wool Exchange Building was erected in 1891. The then owner of the land was J.R. Murphy. T.P Fallen and R. Speight Jnr, financed the project. The architects were Charles D'Ebro and Richard Speight Jnr. From 1892-94 the building was Melbourne's first Wool Exchange and incorporated an auction hall which amalgamated all wool sales. The four storeyed building has exposed brick facades with rendered mouldings. The front section of offices to Collins Street is, however, all ... more	B3463	State
Sniders & Abrahams Building 7 Drewery Lane,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B5516	A building of international interest in the context of the evolution of reinforced concrete construction, as the second example of the American C.A.P. Turner's flat plate system, begun in the same year (1908) and completed not long after Turner's Lindeke-Warner Building in Minnesota, USA; of further importance locally as one of the early attempts to break the monopoly of the Monier system, and reflecting in its design the fact that it began as a conventional concrete frame (probably ... more	B5516	State
Former Herald & Weekly Times Building 44 - 74 Flinders Street and 2 - 10 Exhibition Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6501	The Herald Building is significant at a State level for both its architecural distinction and its strong association with some of Victoria's most important newspapers. Constructed in stages between 1921 and 1928 all to the designs of notable architects HW & FB Tompkins, the main building dominates the corner of Flinders and Exhibition Streets, and is a readily identifiable landmark in the Central Activities District. It is an unusually large, solid, three-dimensional, ... more	B6501	State
Lygon Buildings 98 - 126 Lygon Street, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B3238	An exceptionally fine composition of 17 two and three storey shops designed by George de Lacey Evans in a hybrid Flemish-Elizabethan manner in 1888, with nearly all the plate glass shop windows and joinery intact and the demolished verandah replaced by an almost identical but shallower one constructed from the Melbourne City Council's standard specification. Classified; 10/07/1975 Revised: 03/08/1998	B3238	State
Old Treasury Building 20 - 70 Spring Street and 2 and 3 Treasury Place,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B0071	The Treasury Building was erected by the Public Works Department (PWD) from 1857-62. The contractor was R Huckson. It consists of three floors with basement and is faced with Bacchus Marsh freestone. The building as we know it is not identical to that designed by J J Clark in 1857. Austerity measures in the P W D initiated by Wardell in 1859 resulted in the removal of the attic floor and roof balustrade. The terraces and approaches were constructed in 1867. Despite alterations to ... more	B0071	State
Old Bakery Building 52 Atherton Road,, OAKLEIGH VIC 3166 - Property No B4197		1879	File only
Building No 210 - Raaf Base Point Cook Road,, POINT COOK VIC 3030 - Property No B4309	Statement of Significance for Southern Tarmac Area: The RAAF Base Point Cook southern tarmac group of buildings, facilities and adjacent airfield make up a living complex of great significance in early aviation in Australia. Building commenced in 1914, a time when aircraft were a novelty, with the erection of the workshop for aeroplanes and aeroplane hangar, followed by a flight office (1915) now removed to the northern tarmac, seaplane jetty (1916), battle plane hangar and ... more	B4309	Regional
Adelaide Vale Homestead & Outbuildings 1060 Axedale Road,, FOSTERVILLE VIC 3557 - Property No B2397	Varied and comprehensive homestead group with very fine outbuildings. Classified: 14/05/1970	B2397	State
Ballanee Homestead & Outbuildings 135 Ballanee Road,, BALLAN VIC 3342 - Property No B2328	An interesting and varied complex of homestead buildings, although the actual homestead itself has been added to and altered. Classified: 29/10/1969	B2328	Regional

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